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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Utz say people once believed Crystals turned into?
(a) Rubies.
(b) Babies.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Snails.

2. What is the name of the one exhibition open at the Rudolfine Museum?
(a) The Modern Toilet.
(b) The Yard Stick.
(c) The Volkswagon.
(d) The Modern Chair.

3. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?
(a) A tin of olives.
(b) A duck breast.
(c) A chicken leg.
(d) A baguette.

4. Where does Utz go at the end of the chapter?
(a) Library.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A bath house.
(d) A cabaret.

5. How does the narrator find the mood in the Soviet Union?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Light.
(c) Buoyant.
(d) Serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?

2. What does Utz say is one of life's pleasures?

3. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?

4. What did the Chinese teach that god was the body of?

5. What is the title of the book Marta gave Utz to read on the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Augustus the Strong one of Utz's heros?

2. Why does Marta bang pots together?

3. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

4. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

5. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

6. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

7. What does Utz remember about Marta?

8. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?

9. How did Utz get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia?

10. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

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